CONTENTS. The Principle of Unity in Art............ Robert MacDougall, '90. Some Reflections on Shakspere's " Julius Cæsar"....A. E. Taylor. [All articles and other literary communications should be addressed to the Editor-in-chief, 802 Sherbrooke St., Montreal, or to the Secretary, Royal Victoria College, Montreal. The next issue of The McGill University Magazine, being the second part of Vol. IV., will appear during the second term of the Session 1904-05.] THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. A brief sketch of the course of events in connection with the step taken by McGill to secure recognition of its Honour graduates in Ontario may fitly open our editorial. When McGill began to act, it had not the faintest idea what attitude Ontario or its universities would assume. In the sequel, it became evident that the claims of McGill were regarded as justifiable, and that some modification of existing conditions ought to take place. Such being the general conviction of the committee appointed by the Education Department to report on the question, a proposal to establish a Provincial Board of examiners received the support of the majority. The view which Queen's took and which prevented a unanimous report regarding the methods that a change of system necessitated was, we believe, due in part to a generous desire to see McGill re-instated in ancient privilege; it was also naturally due in part to a fear of the over-lordship of a Provincial Board of examiners, of which Queen's representatives would constitute a minority. Queen's University was supported in its dissent by MacMaster. In the opinion of the minority the difficulty would be resolved by simply adding the name of McGill to the Ontario universities which enjoy the privileges McGill sought to obtain. The authorities to whom the committee submitted a majority and a minority report took the path of compromise. No Provincial Board has been established, nor, on the other hand, has McGill alone been included in the Ontario group. A new regulation which ought to prove satisfactory to the interests of all parties concerned was drawn up by the Education Department and approved by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. It reads as follows:-"Any person who obtains a degree in Arts in the honor department of Mathematics, Science, Classics, English and History, Moderns and History, or French and German, as specified in the calendar of any university in Canada and accepted by the Edu |